My neighbor has these and doesn't know anything about them. I looked on the internet and no luck...nothing on ebay either. What year were these made? Tire changer is a Henderson AF-S 14498s...the bubble balancer is a Lincoln model 7561. They look to be complete? Anyone know where I can get some info on them?
All I could come up with. Lincoln is still in business. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln_Industrial_Corporation Looks like Studebaker owned Big four Industries at one time. (Six paragraphes from the bottom.) http://www.autoquarterly.com/featured_articles/article.php?id=1
Larry That is the same equipment that we had in the Chevron Station we bought in '68. But the station had been there since the '50s and I don't doubt that the stuff was always there. No help I know but the stuff worked good. Maybe someone will come up with an answer now.
When I was in college I worked nights and weekends at Sears. We used changers and balancers like in your pictures. That was 1963. They worked about as well as a........well you get the picture! Cheers, Bob
I'm thinking those are both late 40's items and I never used either one in any shop that I worked in. Here is one link that talks about that model of tire changer a bit and one of the people says that they don't work well on rims over 6 inches wide. http://talk.newagtalk.com/forums/thread-view.asp?tid=68881&mid=486918#M486918 here is the search I did. Sorry about the bold face letters, fat fingers hit the wrong spots. http://www.google.com/search?q=Hend...s=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a
Tire changer look a LOT like the Henderson I got to use, during my apprenticeship in the mid 50's. That bead breaker was also a backbreaker !!!!!! 4TTRUK
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